The Cosmography and Geography of Africa
Leo Africanus
märts 2023 · Random House
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The first new translation in over 400 years of one of the great works of the Renaissance
In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized by pirates while travelling in the Mediterranean. Brought before Pope Leo X, he was persuaded to convert to Christianity, in the process taking the name Johannes Leo Africanus. Acclaimed in the papal court for his learning, Leo would in time write his masterpiece, The Cosmography and the Geography of Africa.
The Cosmography was the first book about Africa, and the first book written by a modern African, to reach print. It would remain central to the European understanding of Africa for over 300 years, with its descriptions of lands, cities and peoples giving a singular vision of the vast continent: its urban bustle and rural desolation, its culture, commerce and warfare, its magical herbs and strange animals.
Yet it is not a mere catalogue of the exotic: Leo also invited his readers to acknowledge the similarity and relevance of these lands to the time and place they knew. For this reason, The Cosmography and Geography of Africa remains significant to our understanding not only of Africa, but of the world and how we perceive it.
Translated by Anthony Ossa-Richardson and Richard Oosterhoff
In 1518, al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan, a Moroccan diplomat, was seized by pirates while travelling in the Mediterranean. Brought before Pope Leo X, he was persuaded to convert to Christianity, in the process taking the name Johannes Leo Africanus. Acclaimed in the papal court for his learning, Leo would in time write his masterpiece, The Cosmography and the Geography of Africa.
The Cosmography was the first book about Africa, and the first book written by a modern African, to reach print. It would remain central to the European understanding of Africa for over 300 years, with its descriptions of lands, cities and peoples giving a singular vision of the vast continent: its urban bustle and rural desolation, its culture, commerce and warfare, its magical herbs and strange animals.
Yet it is not a mere catalogue of the exotic: Leo also invited his readers to acknowledge the similarity and relevance of these lands to the time and place they knew. For this reason, The Cosmography and Geography of Africa remains significant to our understanding not only of Africa, but of the world and how we perceive it.
Translated by Anthony Ossa-Richardson and Richard Oosterhoff
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Leo Africanus (Author)
Born al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan in Granada and raised in Fez, Johannes Leo Africanus was a sixteenth-century diplomat and scholar who, in the court of Pope Leo X, produced the first guide to the geography and culture of North Africa, The Cosmography and Geography of Africa.
Anthony Ossa-Richardson (Translator)
Antony Ossa-Richardson is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at University College London. His most recent book is A History of Ambiguity (Princeton, 2019).
Richard Oosterhoff (Translator)
Richard Oosterhoff is Lecturer in History at the University of Edinburgh, and author of Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d'Étaples (Oxford, 2018).
Born al-Hasan ibn Muhammad al-Wazzan in Granada and raised in Fez, Johannes Leo Africanus was a sixteenth-century diplomat and scholar who, in the court of Pope Leo X, produced the first guide to the geography and culture of North Africa, The Cosmography and Geography of Africa.
Anthony Ossa-Richardson (Translator)
Antony Ossa-Richardson is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at University College London. His most recent book is A History of Ambiguity (Princeton, 2019).
Richard Oosterhoff (Translator)
Richard Oosterhoff is Lecturer in History at the University of Edinburgh, and author of Making Mathematical Culture: University and Print in the Circle of Lefèvre d'Étaples (Oxford, 2018).
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